Sentence examples for a shocking episode from inspiring English sources

Dubs said: "This is a shocking episode.

Mr Barber told the hearing: "This was a shocking episode.

It was a shocking episode, which suggested to me that neither Plimer nor the Spectator wanted to face the facts.

Eve Beglarian's "Waiting for Billy Floyd" (2010), an evocative, atmospheric rendering of a shocking episode from a Eudora Welty short story, fared better.

The accusation, if confirmed, would be a shocking episode of Alawite-on-Alawite violence in a conflict punctuated by violence between sects.

A shocking episode, really, and a reinforcement that what the fourth series is really about is the growing estrangement between Michael and George Michael.

No evidence is given, but it is useful for the book's narrative pace to make Tiberius seem a relatively benign figure, so we have a less shocking episode before we turn to one of the most notoriously monstrous emperors – Caligula.

"I remember this shocking episode: an utterly darling librarian I know got on with me in Amagansett," Mr. Troop said.

"This violent attack is yet another shocking episode in a series of human rights violations against university students across Sudan and underlines the government's determination to put out the last vestiges of dissent" said the rights group's regional director, Muthoni Wanveki.

Williamson spoke with TV Guide about the shocking episode, revealing that a scene in which Damon proposes to Elena had to be cut for time.

Belief in such things might in turn lead, not just to the hounding of innocent women for raising storms or cursing a boat, but to the kind of "shocking episode" recorded in 1830, when passengers were landed by mistake on a sandbank in the Solway Firth (already famous for hauntings), and the locals failed to save them, convinced their shrieks for help were "the wailings of Kelpies".